Penn State Libraries : Information Literacy : Tool Boxes

For courses that include some information gathering within their course assignments, the following pages provide students with basic resource Tool Boxes that allow them to self-select resource categories. In addition, these guides and tutorials provide students with instruction in basic information gathering strategies. The University Libraries have found these pages are most effective when instructors complement them with subject-specific resources.

Toolbox for English Composition/Speech Communication Students

To meet the challenge of introducing library and information resources to the large number of students enrolled each semester in freshman composition courses [English 15/30].

World Campus and Distance Learning

Information Literacy & You

The University Libraries General Education and First-Year Seminar courses. Any course that integrates the identified key competencies of information literacy, including "...opportunities for information gathering, synthesis and analysis in solving problems and in critical thinking (including the use of the library, electronic/computer and other resources ..." will be able to integrate this series of web modules into their course content. Students can use the modules within a class or independently.

& Minute Modules
& Journals
& Newspapers
& InfoCycle

Subject-specific information literacy modules with a broad interest to undergraduates include:

& Company
& Industry
& Patents
& Engineering

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